Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic

The Communist Party of the Donetsk People's Republic is a Marxist-Leninist political party that was founded on 8 October 2014 in the semi-independent Donetsk People's Republic of eastern Ukraine. The party originated as a regional branch of the Communist Party of Ukraine, only to split from the main party and represent the new DPR. It failed, however, to gain any seats in the People's Soviet of the DPR.